Zitat des Tages von Sidney Hook:
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.